The Wife of Bath - Brossura

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141398094 ISBN 13: 9780141398099

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2015

Riassunto

'Those husbands that I had,
Three of them were good and two were bad.
The three that I call "good" were rich and old...'

One of the most bawdy, entertaining and popular stories from The Canterbury Tales.

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Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400). Chaucer's works available in Penguin Classics are The Canterbury Tales, Love Visions and Troilus and Criseyde.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London in about 1342. He was valued highly by Edward III, who paid part of his ransom when he was captured fighting in France in 1360. He rose in royal employment, becoming a Justice of the Peace and was buried in 1400 in Westminster Abbey.

Dall'autore:

Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0141398094
• ISBN 13: 9780141398099
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 64